The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-13

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GEORGIA.
The Ocmulgee has fallen sufficiently for
the boats to resume their regular trips.
An attempt was made TO burn out the
carriage and wagon works of c. H. Osborn,
at Griffin, Wednesday night
At the election for County Clerk in Whit
field county, TO I'll the unexpired term of
A. NJ. Hamilton, resigned, Digory Sholl
was elected by thirty-two plurality, S. w.
Mote being next to him.
A gentleman from Virginia writes to a
friend at Fort Gaines that if sos, 900 can be
raised in Fort Gaines for a cotton factory
$75, 900 will be brought from his town, If
Fort Gaines wants such an enterprise
The number of bales of cotton received at
the depot in Washington since September,
1886, are II, 6Sl. The receipts of 1882 were
the largest on record-ls,496 bales. The
crop of this year will probably exceed these
figures.
Another big land sale was consummated
in Scriven county last Tuesday. E. ID.
White purchased the plantation owned by
John A. Sibey, near Oliver, known as the
Sibley place, containing 1000 acres, paying
therefor s.,
Last Friday on the plantation of w, b.
Carswell, about seven miles northeast of
Hawkinsville, a negro boy l3 or IA years
old shot his little 3-year-od sister in the
head with pistol, from the effects of which
the child died in a short time afterwards.
The boy claims that the shooting was ACCT
dental. There was no witness TO the affair.
During recent thunderstorm, the house
of Mrs Bessie Whatley, at Pearson, Coffee
county, was struck by lightning. The
Misunderstanding on the east end was con-
siderably ripped up, while the electric cur
rent shivered the plate, ran on the inside,
ripped off the mantel- piece and stopped the
clock and watch. Fortunately no one was
hurt
There is man living in Clarke county
who has a coat and vest that he has been
wearing for fifteen years. The material is
nearly as good as when new, and he is still
using it. He has been married in this APP
parel twice. This is long time for a coat
and vest to last, and If everybody did not
have to invest any oftener than this, there
would be but little room for clothing stores
AT the Bohannon House, in Harmony
Grove, are pair of magnificent Siberian
bloodhounds. ordered out from Philadelphia
by Hon T. E. Kew and DR. L. G.. Hartman
After the race that Capt. Oliver made to
catch the burglars they saw the need of such
a pack of dogs and paid large price for
them. They are now in training aud bid
fair to track up all the burglars and muir
derers in the country.
Within few days the Governor will if
report be true, issue some sort of an address
to the people Of Georgia, but on just what
line, or in just what manner it will be
written, or for what purpose, no one seems
to know. The Governor is non-committal
and reticent upon the subject and none of
the executive officials appear to know any
thing about it. In few days the matter
will doubtless be developed.
An accident to a freight train on the
Georgia road near Conyers Wednesday
night caused delay in all the passenger
trains. An axle under union trunk line
car broke, causing several cars to be thrown
from the track. Intelligence of the acct
dent was sent to headquarters at once and
Maj. Green and Supt. Hemphill were soon
upon the scene and gave the work of clear
ing the track their personal and energetic
attention. A train hand on the freight,
whose name is said to be Lawtrell, was CON
siderably hurt.
A few afternoons ago one of the younger
BOYS of Griffin was out driving with a visit
ing young lady. He had whispered sweet
nothings i'll her ear for some time, and they
had been received IN such a manner as to
lead him to believe that they were accepta-
BILE. Finally he concluded TO put his arm
around her waist inst to see how she would
take it. To think was to act with him, and
as he encircled her she turned to him with
great Indignation q and said: "pll give
you just five minutes to take your arm from
around me" In quiet -youth-tone-
of-voice he said make it ten"
Comptroller General Wright received the
tax returns from the following counties
Thursday: FRANKLIN county returned
81 $50, 16S, an increase of ga, 65S; Wilkes
county returned S602l ,62S, a falling Off of
$9,53o The aggregate increase Thursday
was SIS, 100, which makes the aggregate in
dat.
lion of dollars. There are but few counties
yet to be heard from, and the falling off has
been so decided of late days that il is be-
lieved the increase for the whole State for
the year will be much less than what it was
FIRST estimated to be,
Dalton Citizen 1t is said the corn is SO
rank, dark and green on the Connasauga
bottoms that the light from the tre-flies can
be seen Pickering through its sombre shade,
even when the sun is high in the heavens.
An old farmer tells good one about fell
low who lost his way in one of these vast,
dark forests of corn, and was utterly unable
to extricate himself An exploring party,
with lanterns, went in search of him.
When, at last, 1.-THE lost was found" he was
discovered in the top of a tall cornstalk
astraddle of an q d. of corn, where he had
been watching for the last twenty-four
hours for the sun to rise
The night train on the Central road took
away from Augusta Wednesday fifty of its
most disleputable citizens, who go TO find
work on the Goodwater extension of the
Central system, near Birmingham. Many
women were in the party. A laughable in
cident occurred shortly before the train de-
parted. A negro man walked into the
depot, and was hailed by one of the recruits
already within a coach and asked if he did
not want to go with the party. "Wherei"
When assured that the trip would not cost
him anything, he handed a watermelon he
had under his arm TO a bystander, and said:
Here, take this TO my wife, and tell her
am gone TO Birmingham" And he went
Dawson has been visited several times
lately by a man named Blackwell, who pre-
pares connection that he says will cure
almost every known ailment 30 man. While
there several weeks ago he became engaged
in fuss with n citizen of the county, and
gashed him severely on the hand with a
knife. Last week Blackwell returned. Sc
cured a stand and began selling his stuff on
the streets as usual. Saturday he was very
impudent TO several country gentlemen and
roundly abused them. At night, through
fear of those whom he so grossly inSulted
during the day, he folded his tent and, like
the Arab, SILENTLY stole away" at the
same time forgetting to settle his board bill
at the hotel.
Wednesday night Acworth was treated to
a little romance in the way of novel
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